Deuteronomy 4:37

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְתַ֗חַת כִּ֤י אָהַב֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַיִּבְחַ֥ר בְּזַרְע֖וֹ אַחֲרָ֑יו וַיּוֹצִֽאֲךָ֧ בְּפָנָ֛יו בְּכֹח֥וֹ הַגָּדֹ֖ל מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And-ṯaḥaṯ because ʾāhaḇ ʾet-ʾăḇōṯeḵā wayyiḇḥar in-zarʿô after-him, wayyôṣîʾăḵā with-p̄ānāyw with-kōḥô the-gāḏōl from-miṣrayim.

Grammar Details

• *ṯaḥaṯ*: preposition - under/beneath/instead of
• *ʾāhaḇ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he loved
• *ʾăḇōṯeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your fathers
• *wayyiḇḥar*: waw consecutive + verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he chose
• *zarʿô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his seed/offspring
• *wayyôṣîʾăḵā*: waw consecutive + verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and he brought you out
• *p̄ānāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his face/presence
• *kōḥô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his strength
• *gāḏōl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
• *miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt

Word Meanings

• *ṯaḥaṯ*: under/beneath/instead of/because
• *ʾāhaḇ*: to love/like/be fond of
• *ʾăḇōṯeḵā*: your fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *wayyiḇḥar*: to choose/select/elect
• *zarʿô*: his seed/offspring/descendants/posterity
• *wayyôṣîʾăḵā*: to bring out/lead out/take out
• *p̄ānāyw*: his face/presence/person
• *kōḥô*: his strength/power/might
• *gāḏōl*: great/large/mighty

Referenced Verses

• Deut 10:15 : 15 But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.
• Exod 13:3 : 3 And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.
• Exod 13:9 : 9 And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.
• Exod 13:14 : 14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:
• Exod 33:14 : 14 And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.
• Deut 4:34 : 34 Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
• Deut 7:7-9 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
• Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
• Ps 32:8 : 8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
• Ps 34:15 : 15 The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.
• Ps 105:6-9 : 6 O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones. 7 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth. 8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations; 9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; 10 And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
• Ps 114:1-6 : 1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; 2 Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? 6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?
• Ps 136:10-15 : 10 To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 11 And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 12 With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 13 To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 14 And let Israel go through it: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 15 By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
• Isa 41:8-9 : 8 But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend: 9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:
• Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded? 10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through? 11 Those whom the Lord has made free will come back with songs to Zion; and on their heads will be eternal joy: delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
• Isa 63:11-12 : 11 Then the early days came to their minds, the days of Moses his servant: and they said, Where is he who made the keeper of his flock come up from the sea? where is he who put his holy spirit among them, 12 He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.
• Mal 1:2 : 2 You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
• Luke 1:72-73 : 72 To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word, 73 The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,
• Rom 9:5 : 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.